The Road to RevolutionThe Road to Revolution

6-1: Tighter British Control

The Colonies and Britain Grow Apart

James Otis – My dear sister, I hope, when

God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it

will be by a flash of lightning.• colonial leader who gave the first public speech demanding English liberties for the colonists

The Colonies and Britain Grow Apart

Proclamation of 1763 –

• law forbidding settlement west of the Appalachians

The Colonies and Britain Grow Apart

• The after effects of the French and Indian War led to difficulties in the colonies:– Britain had a huge new territory to

govern and sought ways to do so uniformly

– Britain had a huge debt to repay and sought help from the colonists

Summary –

British Troops and Taxes

Quartering Act –

• required colonies to provide housing and supplies for British troops stationed in America

revenue –• income

British Troops and Taxes

Sugar Act – • tax (collected in England) on colonial

exports like sugar, molasses, wine and whale fins...also provided harsh punishments for smugglers

(slogan) –

• “No Taxation Without Representation”

British Troops and Taxes

tyranny –

• absolute power in the hands of a single ruler

George III – • British king (tyrant?) who

stationed 10,000 soldiers in the colonies to enforce the Proclamation of 1763

British Troops and Taxes

James Otis – • colonial leader in the fight

against the Proclamation and the new taxes (it’s his slogan!)

Summary –• Because the debt had been incurred

protecting the colonies, Britain expected the colonists to help pay it.

British Troops and Taxes

Summary (continued) –

• To keep the debt from growing, colonists were forbidden to settle in the West, and troops were stationed in the colonies to enforce the law

• Colonists began to feel oppressed by the new taxes and the presence of troops

Britain Passes the Stamp Act

Stamp Act –

• tax (collected in America) on legal & commercial documents

Britain Passes the Stamp Act

Patrick Henry –

• member of Virginia’s House of Burgesses who called for resistance to British taxation

Britain Passes the Stamp Act

Summary –

• Colonists especially hated this new tax because it was collected in America but was not approved by Americans. They felt they were being taxed without their consent.

• first meeting of the colonies to consider acting together to protest policies of the British government

boycott – • a refusal to buy goods

The Colonists Protest the Stamp Act

Stamp Act Congress –

The Colonists Protest the Stamp Act

Sons of Liberty –

• secret society that often used violence to enforce boycotts

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man or Tarring & Feathering — Philip Dawe(?)

The Colonists Protest the Stamp Act

Declaratory Act – • passed when Parliament repealed the

Stamp Act ..... said Parliament had supreme authority to rule the colonies

William Pitt – • popular leader in Parliament who agreed

with the Americans about taxation and warned against further angering the colonists

The Colonists Protest the Stamp Act

Summary –

• Colonists began to organize to oppose the Stamp Act.

• Colonial efforts were so successful that Britain’s economy was hurt.

• Parliament was forced to repeal the Stamp Act – but they continued to assert their right to govern the colonists.

The Road to RevolutionThe Road to Revolution6-1: Tighter British Control